Genetic Brain Fart

What would a Spider X Spider produce?

Spiders and normals.

Ahh yes that's what I figured. Thanks!

Ahh yes but what would the probabilities of getting a normal or spider be? That question is hard to answer with no proven homozygous spiders lying around.

lol good question! I would think 50/50

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Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls

Ahh yes but what would the probabilities of getting a normal or spider be? That question is hard to answer with no proven homozygous spiders lying around.

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75% spiders w/33% of them likely to be a Homozygous spider, if there is such thing. If one of the breeder spiders is homo., than 100% spiders, half of them also homo.

I'm also suprised it hasn't been proven one way or the other yet. I'd like to breed for them if they are proven.

Hard to prove without a visual...you'd have to "prove" it by breeding it.

I'd say the odds of a heterozygous spider (don't get confused) throwing all spider babies over a sample size of 10-20 eggs would be very, VERY slim. Doing a statistical analysis, I think those numbers would fall into an acceptable level of certainty that an animal that produced like that could fairly be considered a homozygous spider.

Who knows though? I just know I like spiders....:)

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Originally Posted by PythonWallace

75% spiders w/33% of them likely to be a Homozygous spider, if there is such thing. If one of the breeder spiders is homo., than 100% spiders, half of them also homo.

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That's the if that complicates the genetic math my friend. Hoever, as I said before...I do not beleive in the homozygous lethal idea anymore.

Have you heard some indications that there is a homozygous spider? Certainly the lack of one doesn't prove anything but I’m wondering if some new evidence has leaked out.

The odds of a heterozygous spider X normal going 10 for 10 in it's first offspring all being spider is 1 in 1024. The odds of going 20 for 20 is 1 in 1,048,576.